Dust storm continues to disrupt air traffic

Dust storm on Wednesday continued in most parts of the country causing cancellations and delay in operations of national and international flights, a senior official of Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) said. The official told this scribe that due to low visibility level domestic and international flight operations remained disrupted at various airports in the country.
The official told that flight PK 731, PK 334, PK 241, PK 257, PK 562 and Airblue flight 406 were not allowed to take off due to poor visibility. He said that the flights which had been cancelled were as followed: PK-363 Islamabad-Quetta-Karachi, PK-352 Karachi-Quetta-Islamabad, PK-323 Lahore-Quetta, PK-231 Quetta-Dubai, PK-232 Dubai-Quetta, PK-322 Lahore-Quetta, PK-523 Gawadar-Quetta, and PK-524 Quetta-Turbat. Besides, operations of Quetta-bound flights of other private airlines were also cancelled. For a smooth flight operation visibility level should be at least at 800 meters, however during the past few days, it reduced to 100 meters in some parts of the country.